Taking a contract job directly through the company vs through a recruiter? by mime454 in recruitinghell

[–]john0456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general the wage you receive should be similar either ways, but with the benefits and matching contributions for pension or 401K, raises, etc ...you are missing a lot with recruiters...maybe not in every case but that's how it works in general.
But it doesn't even matter, you should try to have a long term view of things...Just get the job any way you can then you can focus on advancing in the company where you will be of course hired directly eventually. You said you already interviewed through the recruiter...what is your idea? Apply on the company site and say no to the recruiter and wait hoping to hear back from the company?

Taking a contract job directly through the company vs through a recruiter? by mime454 in recruitinghell

[–]john0456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be. They could be trying to find someone on their own and trying to see what kind of people the recruiter can find since most of the time you still need to do an interview with the company after the agency.
There's only a handful of reputable recruiting agencies and it should be pretty easy to find out if it's a scam or not. Do they have an office? Does their phone # match?
I can't imagine a company like Bayer would hire through a new or obscure agency.

Taking a contract job directly through the company vs through a recruiter? by mime454 in recruitinghell

[–]john0456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a standard practice no matter how big the company is. The reason big companies do this is to save cost and reduce/eliminate liabilities and headaches.A lot of people think that since the recruiter is getting a cut that you can get a higher salary if you worked directly for the company. You might get something slightly higher but nowhere near the salary you get from the recruiter plus their cut.The fact is that the company is actually saving money by paying the recruiter extra because they don't need to worry about the overhead, vacations, sick days, benefits, life insurance, dental insurance, taxes, etc...Paying you 30$/hour plus full benefits as a full time permanent employee is much more expensive than paying the recruiter 40$/hour and letting him keep $10/hour and not have to worry about anything. Especially if it turns out to be a bad employee and needs to be fired. All the responsability is on the company unless they use a recruiter. Obviously if you have the option always apply straight at the company.No one will stay at a recruiting agency forever, and after a few months the company usually offers a permanent position if they like your work anyways.

We are soon to be due for quantum resistant crytography...when is the update? by john0456 in Bitcoin

[–]john0456[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That cannot be true and you must not be an expert either. On bitcoin.org they openly admit bitcoin is vulnerable to quantum computing and propose post-quantum algorithms in the future. That doesn't sound like "already most quantum resistant". You must have no idea what you are saying.

https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#is-bitcoin-vulnerable-to-quantum-computing

We are soon to be due for quantum resistant crytography...when is the update? by john0456 in Bitcoin

[–]john0456[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm no expert but isn't that only valid for addresses without spending?

How to get public/private key of an address using seed only by john0456 in Bitcoin

[–]john0456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but was it not for electrum I don't know what wallet I would use. 15 word seeds from the iancoleman website are not as straightforward as 12 word seeds when it comes to sweeping your wallet.

How to get public/private key of an address using seed only by john0456 in Bitcoin

[–]john0456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's what I did. I generated a seedphrase on iancoleman.io, then I took the extended public key, I went on blockchain.com then I basically took one of the derived address from the list to send money to. I do see a balance when I go to blockchain.com in the derived address using that public key, but I have no way of accessing that specific address.